Lair exposes trackbombing, a ploy to suck readership from vastly superior, high-traffic blogs, of course a Deaniac is reputed to be one of the culprits. Cheesy.
Which segues into American RealPolitik's lede 'toon today. Scroll down to two gems from Samuel Clemens that still ring true. Thank God.
The Dems continue to bleat that the rich aren't paying their fair share. Soaking the rich might not be such a good idea as this article posted by John Hudock demonstrates.
The rich are no longer getting richer in California. And the rest of us, oddly enough, are suffering from their misfortune.
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Why should we care?Because California's skewed income distribution, combined with progressive tax rates, means that the people at the very top of the income heap pay a very high percentage of the personal income tax collected in this state.
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The media is very dishonest on this issue, they lean in earnestly and ask the candidates the wrong questions. This past Sunday, Tim Russert allowed Howard Dean to reinforce the "rich" canard without a blink. I waited for the follow-up question about small business tax rates and wouldn't Dean's roll-back of the tax cuts be a job killer? I'm still waiting.
Meryl lists a host of reasons why North Korea isn't our problem, concluding with:
America is not the world's policeman. We shouldn't act unilaterally. We have starving people here at home to feed. What's the United Nations for, anyway? The Axis of Evil, it's such a simplistic world view.It is far more important to protest Israel's treatment of the palestinians, or the security fence, or the American occupation of Iraq, or the prisoners at Guantanamo.
Chris Muir's take on the "America as bully" meme sums it up:
